Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson

Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson

1993 · 93 min · ★ 8.0 · Documentary

Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson is a 1993 film made by acclaimed American documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Though Tyson was in jail serving a sentence for rape, Kopple used existing interviews with the boxer, as well as her own extensive interviews with those closest to Tyson, to explore the man's history. The film traces Tyson's story from his troubled and tumultuous upbringing, through his rapid ascendancy in the ranks of the boxing world and his subsequent struggle with the trappings of fame. Fallen Champ earned Barbara Kopple a Directors Guild of America award as Best Documentary Director of 1993.

Directed by Barbara Kopple

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Mike Tyson Self (archive footage)
Cus D'Amato Self (archive footage)
Don King Self (archive footage)
Robin Givens Self (archive footage)
Curtis Ratliff Self - Friend
Tracy Trey Travis Self - Friend
Louis Farrakhan Self (archive footage)
Joyce Carol Oates Self
Evander Holyfield Self (archive footage)
Larry Holmes Self (archive footage)
James Douglas Self (archive footage)
Michael Spinks Self (archive footage)

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